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Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
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Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
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Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
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I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations and to no one of them, more than to yourself.
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.
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The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them let the Negroes fight them and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.
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